Gartner released the survey concerned worldwide fourth quarter and worldwide annual PC market share on Tuesday. It report indicated that the worldwide PC contaction reached 8% in 2015. The contacted range in the fourth quarter was up to 8.3% .

The worldwide PC shipments were 75.7 million units in the fourth quarter that decreased by 8.3% (YOY).The annual shipments were 288.7 million units in 2015, declined by 8% (YOY).

Gartner estimates worldwide PC contacted range will decline to 1% in 2016. What is more, the worldwide PC shipments will lightly increase in the second half of this year.

In the fourth quarter, Lenovo’s shipments contacted 4.2% which was under the average industrial contraction.Its worldwide PC market share was 20.3%. Its sales performance did well in the north America market.

HP shipments contacted 8.1% , Dell contacted 5.1%, while Asus was 3.2%. Gartner statistics showed Acer group did worse. Its contaction in the fourth quarter was 11.2%.

Apple’s shipments increased lightly in the fourth quarter. The shipments reached 5.68 million units, increased by 2.8%. However, Apple’s market share only accounts for 7.5% in the worldwide pc market.

In the Asia-Pacific market, the worldwide PC shipments were 26 million units, declined by 1.5%. Gartner reported that consumers did not buy new PC just because of the release of Windows 10. The publishers focus on profit rather than shipments. They specialize in promoting gaming products.

China PC shipments contacted 4.7% in accordance with the Gartner report.

The six major enterprises in China obtained 73.1% market share in the 2015. While they just accounted for 70.45 in 2014.

In terms of the market share ranking in 2015, Lenovo came first with 19.8%, HP was second with 18.2%, while Dell obtained 13.6%.